SPORR
Real Name: Inapplicable
Identity/Class: Terrestrial amoeba mutate; pre-modern era
Occupation: None
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: None
Enemies: The professor
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Castle Frankenstein, Transylvania
First Appearance: Tales of Suspense I#11/1 (September, 1960)
Powers/Abilities: Sporr apparently retained all the traits of a normal amoeba, just at a proportional magnification. It could survive being blown apart, with the various pieces reforming into one mass.
History: (Tales of Suspense I#11/1) - An unidentified scientist arrived in Transylvania, having either rented or bought Castle Frankenstein. There, he intended to use the large place to conduct his experiments with a growth machine. While experimenting on an amoeba, the local villagers, wary that a scientist was using the castle under secrecy, stormed the place and jailed the professor. However, his growth machine was left on, and it caused the amoeba to grow into a monstrous being, which the villagers called Sporr after a local legend. The giant amoeba mindlessly made its way through town, crushing all in its path. The professor managed to break out of his cell and save a young child. A villager attempted to destroy the creature with dynamite, but after the explosion, Sporr simply pulled itself back together. The professor deduced that Sporr would be attracted to sugar and covered himself with it. Using himself as a living target, he got Sporr to follow him, and the professor led the creature to an area of quicksand. There, the professor managed to hang on to a tree while Sporr sank into the muck.
Comments:
Created by Stan Lee (or Larry Lieber), Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers.
Covers and title pages have given
Sporr eyes, but the actual creature had none.
Reprinted in Where Monsters Dwell#2
Clarifications:
Sporr should be differentiated from a dupilicate of it created by Reed Richards, and has no known connections to
A scientist who used Castle Frankenstein for his
experiments. After the Sporr incident, he swore to never tamper with
nature again.
-- Tales of Suspsense I#11/1
images:
Tales of Suspense I#11, page 5, panel 5
(Sporr)
page 6, panel 4 (professor)
Tales of Suspense I#11 (September, 1960) - Stan
Lee or Larry Lieber (writer), Jack Kirby (penciler), Dick Ayers
(inker), Stan Lee (editor)
10/14/07
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